COSMIC bans AI-generated submissions to ease maintainer workload

COSMIC, the Linux desktop environment developed by System76, has banned all AI-generated content from its pull requests, including code, comments, and descriptions, to reduce maintainer overload. Contributors must now certify they used no LLM-generated material, understand their changes fully, and confirm their work is tested. System76's Jeremy Soller cited strain from unplanned, rarely accepted AI submissions by first-time contributors. This contrasts with Linux and Ubuntu, which allow high-quality AI content, though COSMIC still permits non-generative AI uses like bug detection. The ban follows similar AI-related pressures across major Linux projects.